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Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Stock Market Beat
This article was originally published at RealMoney on November 7, 2007
Don’t Fall Into Cognizant’s Value Trap
Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) is trading down more than 16% after issuing revenue guidance slightly below expectations. Although buying a stock posting 50% earnings growth for a mu...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Cleantech Blog
I had a chance to visit with the founders of a new San Francisco Bay Area cleantech startup called barefoot motors, which is building an all electric ATV. I think is a great idea for an untapped electric vehicle product. Think about it, of all the potential electric vehicles out there ? ATVs suck ...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Condor Options
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The dilemma is this: on the one hand, if the major financial institutions who are holding lots of inscrutable Level 3 assets don’t come clean about exactly how much value they have and how much risk they’re exposed to because of those assets, they won’t inspire confidence...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
An update has been released today on Virgin Media (VMED), in which senior media analyst Ann Northrop, CFA is restating her Hold rating on the company. We excerpted the following details:'Virgin Media is, in our view, in the early stages of a turnaround, poised to generate strong free cash...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Zacks senior telecom industry analyst David Weissman, CFA has recently issued a Hold recommendation to Japanese wireless service provider NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (DCM). Here's what his latest update had to say:'We maintain our Hold recommendation for NTT DoCoMo, the largest wireless service prov...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
A Hold recommendation has been issued to air transport company China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (CEA) by Zacks senior Chinese economy analyst Paul Cheung, CFA. Here's what his latest update said:'China Eastern recorded a sharp profit increase in the third quarter mainly due to s...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — SchaeffersResearch
This article is a recap of an earlier piece taking a look at Hansen Natural's
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earnings report. The takeaway of the earlier article was "sell if you think energy drinks are another fad; buy if you think that 20 years of Red Bull history has es...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Reiterating his bullish case for Del Monte Foods Company (DLM), Zacks senior packaged food sector analyst Steven Ralston, CFA explains why he has initiated a Buy recommendation for the stocks of the canned food firm:'Del Monte's management states that it is focused on improving shareholde...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
'Demand will be going up, but it will be constrained by supply,' Mulva said. 'I don't think we are going to see the supply going over 100 million barrels a day, and the reason is: Where is all that going to come from?' Who is Mulva? Just James Mulva, the CEO of ConocoPhillips (COP). Why i...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Stocks and Blogs
The online advertising business, whether it be display advertising, pay-per-click or pay-per-call is in bull mode. Giants like Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) have recently snapped up a host of players in the business. First, lets look at the different types of companies in this spac...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
The following excerpts explain why Zacks senior Chinese market analyst Paul Cheung, CFA remains bullish and issues a Buy rating to the stock of 51job, Inc. (JOBS):'51job announced its financial results for the third quarter with declining net income and higher sales and marketing expenses...
Wednesday November 14, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Zacks senior Latin American markets analyst Claudio Freitas, CFA has recently upgraded the ADRs of Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., or Petrobras (PBR), from a Hold to Buy. Here are some of the reasons behind his decision:'We are changing our current recommendation on Petrobra...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Today, we recap some of the more noteworthy earnings reports updated in the past 24 hours, what this may have done for the shares price this morning, and what the Zacks PRI expects in the coming ten days:Wal-Mart Holds Its OwnA 2.99% positive EPS surprise is what biggest-of-big-box retail...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
The following excerpts explain why Zacks senior Chinese market analyst Paul Cheung, CFA remains neutral on Perfect World Co., Ltd. (PWRD), the leading Chinese 3D online game developer and operator:'Perfect World announced its first quarterly report after listing on Nasdaq in July 2007. It...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Reiterating his bullish case for Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC), Zacks defense industry analyst Jon Kolb explains why the future looks bright for the defense and aerospace company:'Northrop Grumman offers a strong program portfolio positioned to take advantage of high-growth areas in ...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Condor Options
Just came across a good post from The Options Insider founder Mark Longo about the advantages of using options on the SP 500 ETF (SPY) instead of the traditional SPX options.
We’ve written about the advantages of ETFs over traditional index options many times before (see our trading rules), ...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — TraderBlog.com
CURRENCIES
The December U.S. dollar index is weaker in early trading today. Bears still have the solid technical advantage. Slow stochastics for the dollar index are bullish early today. The dollar index finds shorter-term technical resistance at the overnight high of 76.08 and then at this week'...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Stock Market Beat
This article was originally published at RealMoney on November 6, 2007.
Parametric Technology (PMTC) develops software used for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). At a P/E of approximately 15x and a 5.3% free cash flow yield, Parametric appears cheap relati...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Investing Intelligently
UK Housing Hurting - The British Housing bubble, “spurred by a borrowing spree, thanks to interest rates at 40-year lows from 2001 to 2006″ may be in its last days after the “average home almost tripled in value in the past decade.” It looks like properties bought as inves...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — WC Power Tech Fund
Four Days of heavy sell-offs for North American Markets were met with enthusiastic buying as earnings, financial executive appearances and economic data supported a more bullish tone. Technology led the rise with the Nasdaq gaining more than 3.5% while the Dow Jones and S&P followed with gains of ...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Despite a recent $1.1 billion write on on mortgage backed securities, business at Wachovia (WB) is just fine. Wachovia's chief risk officer, Don Truslow said recently regarding consumer loans,"The housing market certainly has been deteriorating very quickly in certain parts of the country, and we...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Despite a recent $1.1 billion write on on mortgage backed securities, business at Wachovia (WB) is just fine. Wachovia's chief risk officer, Don Truslow said recently regarding consumer loans,"The housing market certainly has been deteriorating very quickly in certain parts of the country, and we...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Zacks senior Latin American markets analyst Claudio Freitas, CFA has recently downgraded the American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) of Brazilian telecom firm TIM Participações S.A. (TSU) from Hold to Sell. Here are some of the reasons why:'We are changing our current recommendation on TIM Pa...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — SchaeffersResearch
This bullish Barron's piece notes that Whirlpool
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has recently fallen victim to housing market turmoil, and "more than 37% of the appliance giant's stock valuation has drained away" since hitting its June peak. However, the author argues, investo...
Tuesday November 13, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
The following excerpts explain why Zacks energy sector analyst Sheraz A. Mian remains bullish on Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN), the oil and gas driller:'We are maintaining our Buy recommendation on Patterson-UTI shares following the company's better-than-expected third-quarter results...